Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices or service intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works. It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself. In addition, it heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. It has been amended in 1998 to also limit the liability of the provider of on-line services for copyright infringement by their users.In other words, internet users who upload or download torrents that are copyrighted can be pursued for litigation. With the use of Network Address Translation boxes and open WIFI networks, IP-based identification is not perfect. Practically anyone who uses the Internet can be framed for copyright infringement. An unauthorized use of a computer can potentially lead to the owner liable for infringement of copyrighting. A neighbour, a customer in a n internet shop, a classmate who borrowed your laptop. Anybody can make the mistake and make you pay for their mistake. And being accused of doing so can cost the accused settlement money for that sort of trouble to go away when in the first place anything that is in the Internet has been put there with the knowledge that others can copy or get it. And the law has unfairly included a protection for online service providers (OSP) including internet service providers (ISP) and other Internet intermediaries by giving them a safe harbour to hide in for their own acts of direct infringement of copyright when they make unauthorized copies and protecting them further by not making them liable for making the copies that others have copied.So the poor guy who has no idea that they are downloading a copy of a downloadable copyrighted software or application is the one who fells the full force of the law with nothing to protect them from it. Owners of these torrents, soft ware and othe r stuff can point their fingers anywhere as long as they provide an identification of an IP address that made a copy at one time. The owners claim are not unreasonable providing that they should develop a system that can give them very accurate, as much as possible, information on who should pay for these crime. And they should also make the online providers be more responsible by making them accountable for what they have made available on the Internet. They should also take care in providing warning that such torrent, soft ware, applications, etc. is copyrighted or not be allowed to put them there in the first place.
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